Grip attachment for pedals.



E. F. & H. PAWSAT.

GRIP ATTAGHMENT FOR PEDALS.

APPLIUATION FILED SEPT. 1'7, 1909.

Patented Oct. 18,1910.

EWALD F. PAWSAT AND HERMANN PAWSAT, OF SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.

GRIT ATTACHMENT FOR PEDALS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 1'7, 1909.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910. Serial No. 518,149.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, EWALD F. PAwsi-i'r and HERMANN PAwsA'r, citizens of the United States, and residents of Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan and State of Wisconhave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Grip Attachments for edals; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The object of our invention is to provide with upturned flanges 6, formed by folding the metal-upon itself. The outer walls of the flanges are extended to'form webs 7, having centrally disposed apertured ears 8, the apertures being so arranged as to coincide with similar apertures 9, which apertures form part of the scroll design of the stirrup-strap. Thus a convenient mode of attaching the grip is had, the apertures 9 being utilized for the reception of retaining bolts 10, which bolts pass through the same together with the apertures in the ears 8 and are thereby clamped to the stirrup-strap by means of nuts 11 in screw threaded engagement with said bolts.

A sheet, 12, of corrugated rubber or other suitable material, is secured to the tread portion of the backing plate 5 by means of rivets 13, the corrugation of the rubber sheet being disposed lengthwise of the pedal with the highest points thereof slightly below the flanges 6, against which flanges said sheet abuts.

In order to hold the pedal in an approximately horizontal position for convenience in adjusting the foot of the operator thereto, in some instances we prefer to secure a pendent Weight 14 to one side of said pedal,

which flanges are the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a bicycle pedal having attached thereto a grip embodying the features of our invention, parts being broken away and parts in section to better illustrate the invention. Fig. 2, a bottom view of the same. 3, a cross-section, as indicated by line 3, 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4, a perspective vieW of one of the grips detached.

Referring by numerals to the drawings, 1 indicates a pedal pin upon which is loosely mounted the sleeve portion 2 of a pedal. The sleeve is provided with laterally extending arms 3, which arms support a stir rup-strap t of the rat-trap drawings.

From the foregoing described mechanism it Will be seen that the sole of an operators shoe will bear upon the full surface of the corrugated sheet and thus by the adhesive tendency prevent liability of the operators foot to slip, when propelling a machine equipped with these grips, the device also forming a broad flat surface for the ball of the foot to engage in place of the toothed edges of the stirrup-strap. hen pressure will be held against material sagging by contact of the backing-plate, with the arms 3 of the pedal, such slight sag as is permitted by the normal clearance of the arms and backing-plate, be-

he above described mechanism constitutes a complete pedal of standard construcforms no part a corrugated gripan uninterrupted toothed edges of the stirrupstraps, the gripping surface being preferably composed of a pliable material, such as rubber or composition, reinforced by a metallic backing.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the drawings 5 indicates a metallic backing-plate that bridges the space intermediate of the edges of the stirrup-strap t and rests upon the toothed edges of the same. The width of the tread portion of the backing-plate is approximately the same as the width between the opposite edges of the stirrupstrap, said tread portlon being terminated same a curvature that conforms to the curvature of the sole of a shoe. The flanges 6 as shown are extending above the surface of Referring to Fig. l the grip is shown as l having one of the webs 7 extended upon a plane common to the tread-portion 0f the backing-strap. In some instances this grip is finished in this state for the trade, for convenience in adjusting said grip to pedals of various widths over a common standard, and in such cases the extended web can be bent downward longitudinally, upon a line parallel with the flange and at any point intermediate of said flange and web edge, whereby the width of pedal is accommodated.

VVe claim:

In a bicycle pedal having a scroll design apertured stirrup strap; the combination of a gripping attachment comprising a contlnuous backing plate having its body portion supported upon the stirrup strap edges, a pliable corrugated sheet secured to the upper face of the backing plate, closed flanged terminals projecting above the plane of the the sheet and approxithe stirrup strap edges for said backing plate, formed by folding the corrugated face of mately alined with that form supports the flanges being aforesaid backing plate upon itself, apertured ear extensions depending from the terminal edges of the flanges, and securing bolts arranged to pass through the ear apertures and one of the scroll apertures of said stirrup strap, the projecting flanges of the backing plate being adapted to resist undue strain upon the corrugated sheet.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands at Sheboyan in the county of Sheboygan and State of b o p a I Wisconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

EWALD F. PAWSAT. HERMANN PAWSAT.

Witnesses:

IRENE D. HANSON, LOUIS GRAssn. 

